Is There a Name for Justin Bieber’s Old Haircut?

Photo by Daniel Ogren.Over the weekend, onetime Vanity Fair cover subject and tween tweeter Justin Bieber subjected himself to a haircut. The “You Leave Me Breathless with Your Words” singer told TMZ that he “wanted to change it up,” and would be donating the lost locks to charity. In stories about the haircut, there has been some confusion about the correct appellation for his former coiffure. Gawker piled on the verbiage, labeling it a “shaggy sweep of tresses.” Entertainment Weekly did away with description altogether, characterizing the hair only as “famed.” (An 11-year-old, speaking with Vanity Fair’s Brett Berk in April, described the do as “the hot combover.”) But, as The New York Times noted in May 2010, there are several specific names for Bieber’s bowl cut. “Call it the Flip and Switch, the Flow, or the Twitch: the Bieber hairstyle—with sideswept bangs that end about an inch past where the Beatles snipped theirs off—is everywhere,” the Times reported.